Isabelle Balkany in court for appeal on conviction for tax evasion, money laundering Isabelle Balkany, one half of a French power couple who dominated politics in a wealthy suburb of Paris for decades, arrives at a Paris court for the start of an appeal hearing against her conviction for tax evasion and money laundering. On October 18, 2019 she was sentenced to four years for concealing 13 million euros from the French tax man between 2007 and 2014. Her husband Patrick is already serving a five-year sentence for his role in the affair. IMAGES